We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
JERRY GARCIAThe great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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